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rapidfire In Review Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times By H.W. Brands. Doubleday, 2005. $35. ISBN 0-385-50738-0. Stemming the Tide T he Navy has released a new video to help stem a recent increase in private motor vehicle and motorcycle mishaps. In the ﬁrst few months of 2006 alone, more than 32 sailors and 20 Marines died in motor vehicle accidents, including nine sailors and ﬁve Marines who died on motorcycles. “Facing the Challenge” talks about wearing seatbelts or helmets, reducing speed, checking road conditions, avoiding aggressive driving, getting plenty of rest, and not drinking and driving. ON THE WEB ■ Visit http://safetycenter.navy.mil, click on Media and Safety Videos. TRICAREUPDATE OBESITY: TRICARE Management Activity has created a demonstration project that will test ways to inform and educate active duty family members and retired beneficiaries about the negative effects of obesity. Surveys show that poor diet and inactivity were among the leading causes of death from 1994 to 2000. From 1995 to 2002, the percentage of overweight active duty servicemembers increased by 10 percentage points. The Healthy Eating and Active Living in TRICARE Households (HEALTH) program will be launched in Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, and Michigan. The project will provide non-active duty adult, Prime-enrolled, overweight and obese beneficiaries with 12-month access to behavior modification targeting diet and physical activity. To be eligible, beneficiaries must be age 18 to 64, not entitled to Medicare, not enrolled in the TRICARE Extended Care Healthcare Option, and living within 50 miles of the research centers. 20 MILITARY OFFICER JUNE 2006 Best-selling author H.W. Brands presents the best biography yet of Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), the seventh U.S. president. This is an exciting and revealing story of Old Hickory, the western lawyer, land speculator, and soldier. Brand tells dramatically of Jackson’s wild and woolly rise to public ofﬁce, his many duels of honor, the nearly ruinous scandals involving his wife, and his bitter feuds with personal and public enemies. Brands also vividly describes Jackson’s imperial quests to annex Florida and Texas and his overriding desire to ensure that strong nationalism trumped the dangers of sectionalism. Burn Before Reading: Presidents, CIA Directors, and Secret Intelligence By Adm. Stansfield Turner, USNRet. Hyperion, 2005. $23.95. ISBN 0-7868-7682-5. With the CIA under constant scrutiny and criticism for its secrecy, failures, and seeming ineffectiveness, Adm. Stansﬁeld Turner offers an interesting analysis of the sometimes warm, often contentious relationships between presidents and CIA directors. He explores the relationships between 12 presidents and 19 CIA directors, from Franklin Roosevelt to George W. Bush and William Donovan to George Tenet, revealing how some presidents worked well with the CIA, but others despised, mistrusted, or just ignored the nation’s foremost intelligence agency. Turner describes the rivalries and politics between the CIA, the White House, and cabinet members, as well as the power plays among the other intelligence agencies, highlighting strong and weak personalities, loyalties, successes, and failures. He also provides his provocative thoughts on the ban on assassinations, the use of businesses to further intelligence collection, and recommendations for yet another reorganization of the CIA and the intelligence community. — William D. Bushnell IMAGES: LEFT, SIEGMAR MUNK/IMAGES.COM/CORBIS; ABOVE, STEVE BARRETT http://safetycenter.navy.mil

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